From the Tin Man and Wall-E to GlaDOS and Samantha, machine companions have long inhabited sociotechnical imaginaries. With the mainstreaming of large language models (LLMs) they have moved from ...

Many people experience relationships with AI companions as socially valuable while remaining fully aware the agent is nonhuman. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future ...

Many people experience relationships with AI companions as socially valuable while remaining fully aware the agent is nonhuman. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future ...

In Heinlein’s tale, Mike was a companion, co-conspirator, and catalyst, a friend who could make us laugh even as he plotted ...

Hall's work has shaped the development of digital libraries and the evolution of the Internet.

Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library Advances in sensor quality coupled with the widespread adoption of ...

If we consider an AI in the form of an LLM as a mathematical object, it represents a weakly structured set of coefficients.

For decades, empirical research has shown that programming is a demanding cognitive activity: Developers rely on working ...

And unlike other technology waves, AI has moved faster and diffused more widely across industries and knowledge workflows. As ...

Input on the publicly available Beaver benchmark is welcome in an effort to make LLM/agentic AI better for real-world business applications. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping ...

The answer is trapped ions, the technology that underpins College Park, MD-based IonQ’s quantum computers. Trapped ions are ...

A single conversation with Albert Einstein in 1952 shaped Neumann's intellectual life and planted the seed that guided his research career. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping ...